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    Two attacks on a sensor network key distribution scheme of Cheng and Agrawal

    Paterson, Maura B. and Stinson, D.R. (2009) Two attacks on a sensor network key distribution scheme of Cheng and Agrawal. Journal of Mathematical Cryptology 2 (4), pp. 393-403. ISSN 1862-2976.

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    Abstract

    A sensor network key distribution scheme for hierarchical sensor networks was recently proposed by Cheng and Agrawal. A feature of their scheme is that pairwise keys exist between any pair of high-level nodes (which are called cluster heads) and between any (low-level) sensor node and the nearest cluster head. We present two attacks on their scheme. The first attack can be applied for certain parameter sets. If it is applicable, then this attack can result in the compromise of most if not all of the sensor node keys after a small number of cluster heads are compromised. The second attack can always be applied, though it is weaker.

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    Item Type: Article
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
    Depositing User: Maura Paterson
    Date Deposited: 25 Jan 2013 09:13
    Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:32
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/5353

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